HOBOKEN—On Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, the Hoboken Fair Housing Association will host a screening of “Lost Bohemia,” a 2012 film that documents the vibrant life and sad end of Carnegie Hall Artists Studios, 165 live/work studios for artists, writers, and musicians that once existed above Carnegie Hall.
Built in 1896, the studios played host to hundreds of famous creative minds over the years, including Mark Twain, Norman Mailer, Enrico Caruso, Isadora Duncan, Bob Fosse, Leonard Bernstein, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Redford.
But in the early 2000’s, the Carnegie Hall Corporation decided to evict the studio tenants in order to build administrative offices. HFHA member Cheryl Fallick said the film “poignantly presents the age-old struggle between art, culture and commerce and asks us to consider and re-think the direction that our society is headed.”
Josef Astor, who directed “Lost Bohemia” and is a former tenant himself, will be on hand to give an introductory presentation at 7:00 p.m. and to answer questions after the film.
The location is the Community Church in Hoboken at 606 Garden St. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $10.00.
Fair Housing Association presents cautionary tale for Hoboken Dec. 5
